Produced by Al Haines. THE YOUNG LOVELL A ROMANCE BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER "When they were come to Hutton Ha’ They ride that proper place about, But the laird he was the wiser man, For he had left nae gear about." _Border Ballad_. LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1913 PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED LONDON AND BECCLES _All rights reserved_ HISTORICAL NOVELS BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER THE FIFTH QUEEN PRIVY SEAL THE FIFTH QUEEN CROWNED THE HALF MOON THE PORTRAIT LADIES WHOSE BRIGHT EYES THE YOUNG LOVELL PART I I In the darkness Young Lovell of the Castle rose from his knees, and so he broke his vow. Since he had knelt from midnight, and it was now the sixth hour of the day, he staggered; innumerable echoes brushed through the blackness of the chapel; the blood made flames in his eyes and roared in his ears. It should have been the dawn, or at least the false dawn, he thought, long since. But he knew that, in that stone place, like a coffer, with the ancient arched windows set in walls a man’s length deep, it would be infinitely long before the light came to his eyes. Yet he had vowed to keep his vigil, kneeling till the dawn ...